Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought to just quit.

The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.

The courts may have their finest hours, but they'll not break us. We will not settle for one penny less than our objectives. The judge can drop dead in his black robes. I don't care if I rot in jail. I will not call off the strike.

The strike is the weapon of the oppressed, of men capable of appreciating justice and having the courage to resist wrong and contend for principle. The nation had for its cornerstone a strike.

I will be a broken record for justice.

So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying.

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.

Movements live on a day-to-day basis.

Knowing that there is a community of people on every corner of this planet that believes in justice, that is willing to sacrifice, and that is willing to take a stand is the most heartening thing.

Sometimes it takes a child to raise a village - or to take down an injustice.

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

We need critical mass. We need people, not just one or two. We need a lot of them.

If something's not right, then you have to take to the streets and make it right.

Rich or poor, we all need organizations that can represent us; we all need modes of collective action when individual action does not yield justice.

If the Karmabanque hasn't worked, it's because there isn't yet a critical mass of people who are prepared to fight back and who instead prefer to be victims.

I want to appeal to all people to come together across the country and stand against this politics of corruption.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.

Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up.

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.